Carme is a feminine given name of two separate origins. The first is a
Galician and
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
form of
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
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karmel'', "garden". The second is from
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
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Karmē'', whose name means "she who cuts the grain", from ''keirein'', "to cut".
People
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Carme Figueras, a Catalan politician
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Carme Laura Gil, a Catalan professor
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Carme Pinós
Carme Pinós (born 1954) is a Spanish architect.
Biography
Pinós graduated Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) in Barcelona in 1979 and returned to the school in 1981 to study Urbanism. From 1982 on she formed a part ...
, a Catalan architect
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Carme Riera
Carme Riera Guilera (; born 12 January 1948) is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television and literary criticism. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish liter ...
, a Catalan professor
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Carme Ruscalleda, a Catalan chef
Other
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Carme (mythology) In Greek mythology, Carme (; Ancient Greek: Κάρμη ''Karmē'') was the mother, by Zeus, of the goddess Britomartis. She was either the daughter of Euboulus, the son of the Cretan priest Carmanor, or the daughter of Cassiepia and Phoenix, th ...
, a figure in
Greek mythology
A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities ...
.
See also
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Carle
Carle or Carlé is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
*Andrea Cosima Carle, whose stage name is Maggie Mae (1960 – 2021), German singer
*Barbara Carle (born 1958), French-American poet, critic, translator and Italianist
* David C ...
, surnames
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Carle (given name)
Carle is given name that is a variant of Carla. Notable people with this name include the following:
Given name
*Carle Bernier-Genest (fl. 2006 – 2009) is a Canadian politician
* Carle Brenneman (born 1989), Canadian snowboarder,
*Carle Hessay, ...
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Karmei Tzur
Karmei Tzur, or Carmei Tzur ( he, כַּרְמֵי צוּר) is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement in the West Bank located north of Hebron in the Judean hills between the Palestinian towns of Beit Ummar and Halhul. The ...
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Carmen (given name)
Carmen is a given name with two different origins. Its first root is Spanish and Italian and used as a nickname for Carmel and Carmelo (respectively), from Hebrew '' karmel'' ("God's vineyard"), which is the name of a mountain range in northern I ...
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